Accullla

@SpaceCoconut said:
Does anyone else wonder if sometimes bugs and such are deliberately left in a killer in order for them to be a fun and exciting addition to the game during the PTB and early marketing stages only to be nerfed into mediocrity a few weeks later?
If the flick was never intended, why was it left in only until after his release when players were very excited to drop cash on what used to be a universally enjoyed killer who is now simply Hillbilly #3?
I personally knew nerfs were coming and only purchased him with shards, but do any of you who purchased him with cash or cells feel a sense of bait and switch from the devs?
I'm starting to wonder since this seems to happen with every new killer.

This killer is free, though?

in Bait and Switch? Comment by Accullla December 12, 2019

@DwarvenTavern said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/911001#Comment_911001
That's a fair point, I wish I had your experience with egc instead of my version. For me it would go like this.
-Complete all the gens
-99% the gates and wait for an opening
-everyone is here, open the gates and we'll leave.
It's always been like that for me, always. I know killers can open the gate, but I just find it odd. Everytime I open the gate, my plan for it immediately backfires. Maybe I'll keep trying.

I'm sorry to hear that you are having a bad time with it. I do get these games as well and it's a pretty rough feeling when it happens.

I know you haven't asked for my advice and for all I know you're a much better killer than I am, but here's my two cents on the situation - If you're already in a chase with somebody when the last gen pops most of the time you should be able to down them before the gates are open. When that happens and depending on the situation/survivors' playstyle and the killer you're playing you have a bunch of options to extend the game:

hook the downed guy and either stick around the hook - try to trade a hook or 2 with people coming for the rescue
hook the downed guy and go hunting - try to intercept survivors coming from the exit gates on their way for the save. Often times they put themselves in risky positions which might net you a second down. If you get that quickly (assuming you've burned through a bunch of pallets in the area) you can slug, go back to the hook and react based on what's going on there.. or just hook the second guy and split the pressure on the remaining survivors
slug the person and bait the others to leave the exit gate area

It won't work every time, but at least for me these moments often get pretty intense and make up for a rough time during the main portion of the match

in End game collapse Comment by Accullla December 11, 2019

@DwarvenTavern said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/908160#Comment_908160
No, let me try again. Okay, I find it extremely awkward that the big game changer happens as soon as the survivors are given the option to escape. What's the point then? Sure you gain extra points, but it's extremely situational. I'm saying if they changed it after all gens are completed they could do it this way.
-More EGC timer, so instead of 2minutes and thirty seconds, it could be five minutes
-Giving more survivors and killers the ability to GAIN those extra EGC points
-Matches could also end quicker
-it'd be interesting for both sides.
I'm not interested in making this a definite way to kill, I just want egc to be slightly more interesting and more beneficial. (Point way)

I think I understand what you mean now. However, I think your idea may backfire against what you're trying to achieve. I'd say most interesting interactions during the end-game collapse happen due to survivor altruism. Taking human psychology into account, when people are faced with a timer, most of them will try to beat it. What i think this means is that it will force survivors out quicker than now even if the timer is extended from 2 minutes to 5 minutes and potentially force them to be less altruistic during that timer - i.e. survivors will be less likely to go for a save and more likely to wait around the exit or just leave. In my experience endgame altruism results in survivors dying more often than survivors escaping, meaning that taking the other stuff I suggested into account, starting the timer after the last gen is popped will more likely result in less average kills per trial and less endgame interaction between the killer and the survivors.

Personally I don't believe this result will be preferable to the majority of survivors or killers.

Obviously most of what I said here is based on my own experience in the game and I might be wrong, but I feel like the current system is actually more interactive and fun for both sides than the solution you suggested.

Edit: I missed one of the points you made regarding putting pressure on survivors before they are able to escape. I don't think it will do much though. How often are you in a game where it takes more than a couple of minutes to open or 99 the gates after all of the gens are powered? In my experience whenever that's happened was because all of the survivors were dead/slugged anyway - timer or no timer

in End game collapse Comment by Accullla December 11, 2019

@DwarvenTavern said:
Okay. Hear me out, not everyone will agree with this, but please hear me out.
In my personal opinion, end game collapse is rather weak. It's not too threatening, and it most cases it can get completely negated by 99% a gate. We can force it by opening an exit gate as a killer, but honestly that really means nothing. Only way that it's a real threat is if you closed the hatch, but that means two things. Either you killed everyone or someone used a key. So, most of the time, it's not in play normally. Not including the hatch. So, my idea is this. What if it started after the GENERATORS got completed? I know it can seem like an issue, but most of the time survivors will compete a gen in front of the gate or the gate is rather close. Hey, you could increase the end game timer if it seems like it'll be too strong. I just find it rather flimsy. On both sides.

I don't see the point though. Are you suggesting it as a means for the killer to sacrifice more survivors by preventing them to open the doors? If so, the perk blood warden does exactly that. It's really fun to use.

Otherwise, if the point is to just finish the game as quickly as possible once the gens are done, I don't think that's a good idea. Some games fly by really fast and both the killer and survivors can use the time before opening the gates to make up the bloodpoints that they didn't manage to get during the main part of the match. I think initiating the endgame immediately would force the survivors out too quickly, denying both the killer and them the opportunity to keep playing and try to salvage a game that went by too quickly.

in End game collapse Comment by Accullla December 10, 2019

I agree it can be a bit frustrating at the beginning when you feel like you have mostly useless perks on the character that you want to play and to get the perks you do want, you have to level up a character that you don't actually plan on playing at all. That does make the first 50 or so hours of playing the game a bit frustrating, but once you get over that hump you may find (as many other players do) that the grind is what actually keeps you going.

At that point you'll have enough perks for at least 1 or 2 fun builds on your "main" and every few more hours of playing the game get you that much closer to the next interesting character/build that you always wanted to try! Without that the game does sometimes a bit repetitive.

My suggestion to you is to tough it out for now, as the game gets more interesting the more you play it and the grind becomes less frustrating and more enjoyable, the more content you unlock through it.

Also, you might not like the hag now, but you never know how you'll feel about her in a few months time, once you get more experienced with the game mechanics. In my first few hours of the game the only killer i could play was the Doctor, as otherwise i could just never find any survivors.. As I gained experience I actually found killers like the hag (which i never thought i could play in the beginning) quite enjoyable!

Good luck :)

in Why do I have to grind for other perks? Comment by Accullla December 10, 2019

@Boss said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/907845#Comment_907845
That wasn't my point.
Survivors don't get to dictate how Killers should play, and vice versa.

I completely agree with you. I was just adding my 2 cents to the argument, based on a situation I was in a while ago - hooked a survivor, saw a set of scratch marks right in front of the hook and 2 people on barbecue on gens. I thought if I found and chased the person who was clearly waiting for the unhook, I'd be pressuring the other 2 to leave their gens and come for the save. Long story short, I ended up chilling around the hook looking for that 1 survivor, 2 gens popped by the time I finally managed to get a hit on them. 3 escaped, bar the hooked one, who ended up dying there on their second hook.

After the game I got messaged the exact same words you used "you should have patrolled gens" and all I could think was "fair enough, you're absolutely right".

That's why I said that it depends on circumstance and even post-game salt could be used as genuine constructive criticism.

in Its not toxic Comment by Accullla December 10, 2019

@Boss said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/907589#Comment_907589
Idk, every now and then, i do hear someone saying Killers should patrol Generators, keyword being "should".

Depends on circumstance.. If a gen's already popped, all survivors are alive and you see 2 people on gens with BBQ (i.e. survivors are pressuring you), I think you definitely should patrol generators even if you know there is a survivor near the hook, but I think that's just common sense. If you know for a fact that no one is on a gen (or heading towards a gen), then there's not really anywhere to go.. It's the survivors' job to pressure you.

Similarly,survivors will just pump out gens when the killer hasn't put enough pressure on them and they just don't have anything else to do.

in Its not toxic Comment by Accullla December 10, 2019

I was watching a youtube video of someone playing another game that I was thinking about getting. Coincidentally that person was playing with a DBD youtuber called HybridPanda. He seemed pretty funny, so I checked out his channel. Found 200 or so DBD videos, so I watched a couple. I didn't find the game that interesting at the time, but his commentary was so funny that I kept watching more and more videos. 6 months later I think I'd seen about 150 videos of a guy playing a game I was not even interested in. Randomly on a chill weekend that I was planing to spend at home I decided I wanted to try a new game and bought DBD. To my surprise I got hooked instantly. This was last October, so my first experience playing the game was the hallowed blight event.

in What brought you to Dbd? Comment by Accullla December 10, 2019

Have it so that you can select 2 challenges at once, but only be able to earn progression against one of them at the end of the match. For example you choose the challenges where you have to sacrifice x obsessions and hook the obsession x times (those were 2 of the challenges in tier3 if I remember it right).

At the end of the match if you managed to kill the obsession, you'll take progression for that challenge. If you hooked them, but didn't manage to actually kill them, you'd choose to get progression against the other.

in If you could change something about the archive challenges, what would it be? Comment by Accullla December 7, 2019

@TragicSolitude said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/901097#Comment_901097
I was just throwing it out there. Extra Bloodpoints could also perhaps help the side that loses to a mori/key not feel so cheated. Just something so that it's not punishing players in multiple ways at once.

Or a guarantee that you'll get instaqueued for the next game (obviously I know this isn't possible). Honestly, I don't care about not earning bps, losing pips or items. What really bugs me is that I waited for ages to get into a lobby and start a match, just for someone else to decide for me that they want to end the game in less than 5 minutes.

in I’m done playing against Moris Comment by Accullla December 7, 2019

@Mooshroome64 said:
On most survivors, but mainly David, Jeff, Dwight or Jake depending on how I feel:
Probably Aftercare, DS, Iron Will + Spine Chill
If I'm playing Adam or Ace, they're quiet enough to run something other than Iron Will - I quite like dead hard on them.
As for on killer:
Doctor - Ruin, BBQ, STBFL and Discordance is normally my go to, maybe throwing in a spirit fury/enduring combo, pop or mad grit if I'm feeling funky.

Discordance on Doc is an interesting choice, because he's generally pretty good at tracking.. or do you try to synergise the perk with his power? E.g. save tier one madness for when you need to find survivors during the midgame. avoid using the power at the start and use discordance instead? I'm really curious as to how people play Doc, as I rarely play him.

in Favourite builds on the characters you main Comment by Accullla December 4, 2019

@Fibijean said:
https://forum.deadbydaylight.com/en/discussion/comment/885905#Comment_885905
Nope. Evader awards points for being in the terror radius, but they're pretty pitiful compared to the points you can earn in a chase and won't get you anywhere close to an Iridescent emblem.
Unbroken simply rewards you based on whether or not you escaped, and how well you did. Bronze for dying early, Silver for Dying late, Gold for survivor, Iridescent for surviving without getting downed.
And yes, Lightbringer and Benevolent are my bread and butter in this game as far as ranking goes.

Fair enough. Maybe I thought that it would make more sense for these points to go into unbroken. I do wish they change up the emblem system soon with individual killer ranks and all that stuff. I'm sure that will come with an overhaul of the survivor system as well, which will hopefully change things up a bit for everyone.